Eight months after Winston Thorpe made a life-saving call to the police, notifying them that their colleague had been shot and left for dead in bushes in Portmore, St Catherine, the 66-year-old hero remains homeless and struggling. Thorpe, a...

As sprint icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce crossed the stage on Monday to be officially inducted into the Order of Jamaica (OJ), her son Zyon consumed her thoughts. In that moment, the 35-year-old multi-Olympic and World Championships gold medallist...

Following a complaint that one of the operating theatres at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) had ceased operations owing to a massive leak from the ceiling, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said that when such problems arise, a.....

Residents of Greenwich Town in St Andrew South Western are hoping that rehabilitation works will be carried out soon at the sewage treatment plant in their community to bring an end to years of torment from the stench it emanates. “From mi born an...

A promising high school footballer who dropped out of Holy Trinity High School this year, reportedly as a result of the deadly ongoing feud between the Darksyde and Genasyde gangs in Kingston Central, was gunned down in a brazen daylight gun attack....

The Manchester farmer who slaughtered his lover, their teenage son, and his brother in April 2014 had reportedly told a taxi driver three weeks before the tragedy that he was going to kill the woman because she owed him $20,000 and was refusing to.....

TOKYO, Japan: Chitaru Shimizu, director of Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Division at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says expanding relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is paramount and Jamaica, its oldest partner in the....

Jeffery Bowen, who braved crocodile-infested sewage water on the night of July 31, 2020, to rescue a drowning young boy, said he would not have been able to live with himself if he had turned a blind eye to the boy’s plight and he ended up dying.....

Days ago, when a spiritual leader strolled between the zinc fences in the community of Frog City, St Andrew, trying to warn residents of dreadful violence that would soon befall the area, some persons reportedly threw water on her and chased her...

The Integrity Commission says a document outlining the incomes and assets of Prime Minister Andrew Holness has not been published because it has not yet been certified. “The Commission is not in a position to certify it, and in the circumstances,...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE NATIONAL Solid Waste Management Authority’s (NSWMA) Western Parks and Markets Waste Management Limited (WPM) continues to face an uphill battle with waste collection across St James, with the parish having a collection backlog....

Anaheim, California: As the clean energy landscape around the world changes, countries are being encouraged to invest in suppression systems to guard against the impact of fires. Engineering Manager at Firetrace International Brian Cashion argued......

ANAHEIM, California: Professionals in the renewable energy sector have asserted that recent developments in state policies and utility targets for energy storage are creating the market conditions for innovative long-duration energy storage...

WESTERN BUREAU: AMBASSADORS OF the Population and Housing Census were out in the field with their sensitisation programme, rallying citizens through schools and on the street corners in St James about the importance of the data-collection exercise.....

The fallout from the “massive” ransomware attack on Massy Jamaica Distribution Limited could be “catastrophic” for swathes of Jamaican consumers and companies, particularly those who are still unaware that their confidential data were left w...

Organised criminality continues to spread across Jamaica, as the gang culture extends its tentacles far and wide, even as law enforcement has been at pains to keep it under control. Last week’s much-publicised land scam in Clifton, St Catherine is...

Opposition Leader Mark Golding and his family had asset holdings worth over $117 million at the end of last year, his latest statutory declaration has revealed. Golding, an investment banker and attorney, also reported US$1.3 million and £1,660 in...

The General Legal Council (GLC) has thrown out the request by House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert to dismiss the case of professional misconduct brought against her by some of the children of the late Clinton Clarke regarding what they...

Jamaican-Canadian billionaire Michael Lee-Chin cannot, without contradiction, be described as a hard-nosed businessman, but his knack for picking winners and his golden business touch have created worldwide footprints – and he seems to be just......

The Transport Authority and its agents have come under judicial fire for “woeful dereliction” of duty for the more than five years they took to inform transport operator Marlon Parker where his minibus was being kept after it was seized in Novem...